Spoek Mathambo Control

Control, fourth video from Spoek Mathambo s debut album Mshini Wam: It is a darkwave township house cover of the Joy Division classic She s Lost Control. For the music video, Spoek has collaborated with one of South Africa s most celebrated photographers, Pieter Hugo cinematographer Michael Cleary. It explores the world of township cults, street preaches and teen gangs and was shot on location in a squatted train boarding house in Langa, Cape Town. The cast is mainly made up of the neighborhood kids who run their own dance troop, Happy Feet. Spoek Mathambo has been putting the world onto his brave, progressive take African music for the past number of years (through his own music as well as DJing under the name HIVIP) and most recently, through the release of both his solo album and assembling a band to realise his afrofuturist dream. Pieter Hugo is a South Africa artist, photo